What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Exo** · 05-29-2014, 03:37 PM

Big Bad Wolves

First off let me say that even though I love his films, Quentin Tarantino is starting to piss me off. He’s a pretentious douchebag who happens to make some of the best films of the past thirty years. I’ll give him credit for that. I hope he continues making films for a long, long time. I do however wish that he stop talking, like forever. His claim that this was the best film of last year is just ludicrous and seems like he’s just trying to sniff his own butthole due to the fact that the entire film was a dragged out version of the scene from “Reservoir Dogs” when Micheal Madsen cuts that cops ear off. That isn’t to say I didn’t like the film because I enjoyed it, but it was nothing new whatsoever and for Mr. Tarantino to claim that this film was the best from last year just strikes me wrong. It just screams “Hey! I make movies like this! I didn’t make a movie this year so THIS is the best of the whole year.” Give me a break.

Now, apologies to the cast and crew of this film because even though it seems like I just took a huge dump on your film, I did find some enjoyment in the film. Besides a little set up, the entirety of the film pretty much takes place in the basement of a secluded cabin in which a father who just lost his daughter to a brutal rapist/murderer thinks he has found the killer. He thinks he has found the killer because the cop who is with him thinks it was him even though there is no evidence to suggest he’s right. There really isn’t much more meat to this film besides being a good old fashioned torture movie. Films like this come along a lot because it’s an easy script to write and you can get creative in the ways to torture people. This film didn’t get that creative. Hell, it wasn’t even that bloody. There were a few cringe worthy scenes but for the most part I was left wanting something a little more original. I was at least hoping for a shocker of an ending but instead I got an unearned twist that was suppose to hit hard but since the script decided to invest nothing in the characters themselves, I didn’t give a ****. The only thing I actually enjoyed about this film was the cast and the dialogue, which is what ultimately saved the film for me.

Tzahi Grad is a menace. He’s a huge presence with a deep frightening voice that was perfect in this role. His line of “Maniacs are afraid of other maniacs” couldn’t have rang more true. The guy was a pleasure to watch every single time he was on screen. His terrifying presence was helped greatly by some fantastic dialogue written for the characters. The writers decided to take a black comedy approach by taking a very serious script about torture, rape, and murder and gad the characters in this film be as polite as possible. In one instance, a character apologizes to the alleged serial killer for not offering him a piece of cake. This is before he is planning on burning him with a torch. I loved it. I thought it was hilarious. I wish the movie lived up to how funny it ended up being.

So while Mr. Tarantino was completely wrong about this film in my opinion, it was still a decent watch and is now streaming on Netflix. If you’re into horror movies and would like to see a black comedy dressed up as a horror film, then I’d suggest checking it out.

3/5

bob. · 05-29-2014, 03:42 PM

hmmmmm

this flick has been sitting on my computer for about two months.....maybe i should just buck up and watch it

Paedantic Basterd · 05-30-2014, 06:04 PM

Charlie Bartlett: 5/10. I really can't ever watch another film with psychological themes in it again. A seventeen year old flipping through the DSM and prescribing medications to other teenagers? I can't even begin to describe how unsound that is. Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't listen to one another about regular ****, let alone psychological advice.

GuD · 05-30-2014, 08:04 PM

Ah man. I hated that movie too.

I watched The Kids Are All Right the other night. Growing up with a queer single mother I thought I'd relate to it more. Still a great movie, though.

Black Francis · 05-30-2014, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I've been watching a lot of movies with the cat this week, so here goes.

Watchmen: 5/10.

You have to take into account the movie is a compressed version of the graphic novel so they had to simplify the story to the most important events.

But you still found it too long so if they had elaborated on it i don't think it woulda made a difference.

i personally luved it but to each his own i guess.

**Exo** · 05-31-2014, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Charlie Bartlett: 5/10. I really can't ever watch another film with psychological themes in it again. A seventeen year old flipping through the DSM and prescribing medications to other teenagers? I can't even begin to describe how unsound that is. Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't listen to one another about regular ****, let alone psychological advice.

I liked that movie because of this scene alone...

Anyway...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Dear 15 year old girls who walked into our theater half way through our movie,

I hate you. I don’t know who the hell your parents are, but they did a horrible job raising you. They probably did drugs and had you watch because only in that environment would two people learn such evil. First of all, how the hell did you even pay for this film? It’s New York City so on top of the $13 ticket you had $4 for 3D and $2.50 for super awesome sound. That’s an almost 20 dollar ticket. You either snuck in or had your horrible parents drop you off with their drug money because it’s the only reason to explain your behavior. You obviously don’t like X-Men because you missed the entire first half of the movie and instead of trying to catch up on the insane plot, you immediately sat down and started…fighting? You were slapping each other and yelling for the other to get off you. What the hell? There was about 150 people in there that put up with your bullsh*t but I wasn’t having it and neither was the person with me. We saw through your bull****. You sat down next to the wrong people motherf*ckers. At first we just stared at you hoping our demon eyes would stop your bullsh*t, but no. You had to pull out your f*cking cellphones. Who the hell watches youtube videos, in a theater, with 150 people who paid to see it? Did you think that our parents gave us drug money as well? That’s not how life works and I’m sorry for your future. I had enough and yelled at you to shut up, and you did, for twenty minutes. By that point I just had enough and blocked you out mentally just like your parents blocked the love from your lives in which turned you into horrible douchey 15 year old girls. You may have ruined some of my movie, but I won at the end of the day because I will grow up with a happy life.

Don’t procreate.

So, I had to get that out of the way. It just had to be said and I’m sorry for the bad language but this is my website and I’ll do what I want. Now, let me say that my only experience with the X-Men franchise has been the movies, which I’ve only seen once a piece, and the Sega Genesis game in which Gambit was my favorite character. Did they use Gambit in any of the films? Yes, once, in the worst film of all time. So, two years or so ago when the “reboot” happened I was reluctant to go but it ended up being a good film mostly due to the fact that I have a man crush on Michael Fassbender. The sequel to the reboot was one in the same, perfectly acceptable and entertaining.

Now I’m not even going to try to re explain the plot. The whole first ten minutes of the film was spent by me trying to figure out what the f*ck was going on and I wasn’t the only one in the theater to be in that situation. Various exclamations of “Huh?” “What?” and “Wait…wha?” were heard from the crowd. Slowly it started to take shape in my brain and I was able to enjoy the film. I’ll just explain a few things that the IMDB plot I ripped off doesn’t. Time Travel. Crazy future robots. Tyrion Lannister mustache. Drug addict Prof. X. Portal Girl. There you go, that’s the beginning of the film. What followed next was a serious genre flick that had very few holes and a lot of awesome **** to see.

I can’t tell you how long it took me to get over Peter Dinklage’s mustache in the film. I don’t know who decided to cast him as the “villain” but whoever did deserves a raise. I have no idea whether his character is an actual character in the Marvel universe and if he’s a midget but the use of Dinklage was just awesome. He’s my favorite part of Game of Thrones and any chance to see him on the big screen is amazing. I don’t think I’ve gotten over the mustache though. I laughed every time he came on screen for the first hour and I think I may have snickered for the second. Dinklage was great though. Seriously though, look at his f*cking mustache…

I know. I’m twelve.

So along with the normal crowd of mutants, the film introduced us to possible the best one of all not named Magneto. Evan Peters plays Quicksilver in the film and I’ll be writing Marvel a letter urging them to make a film just about him. His parts in the film were my favorite of the whole movie. Without giving too much away, the jailbreak scene was one of the funniest and mesmerizing action scenes I’ve ever seen. The effects were gorgeous, the payoff was brilliant, and the gags were earned and not forced. Brilliant stuff there. I was disappointed that we didn’t get to see Quicksilver much after that though. He’s a great character and Evan Peters played him perfectly.

Hugh Jackman basically is Wolverine and one of the greatest casting choices of all time so I don’t have to explain why he was awesome in this movie. The other two leads, Magneto and Prof. X, played by four people, were also top notch, highlighted by the younger two of the four. I love Ian Mckellen, but Michael Fassbender is a much more frightening Magneto. Every time he is one screen I feel somebody is going to get hurt. He has the most control over his powers and when he uses them you actually feel hopeless. That is a seriously evil trait to possess. I’m not a big Prof. X fan but James McAvoy knows how to act and act he did. I thought he did a fantastic job. The old fellas did well although the film had a lack of Mckellen which disappointed me. It was one of the movies few faults.

Speaking of faults, there really weren’t many to seriously downgrade the film and the few there were have already been mentioned. I wish there was more time with all of the characters and the only reason there wasn’t was because the plot was really complex which left little room for fun. I’m not a huge comic book nerd so I go to these movies for fun. There just could have been a little bit more but it certainly didn’t detract from the film. It’s a great action film and really lifted the superhero genre back to its feet after the Thor movies failed to impress me and since the debacle of Iron Man 2. I’ll look forward to the next installment, hopefully with more Dinklage, but there won’t be.

That f*cking mustache.

4.5/5

djchameleon · 05-31-2014, 11:28 PM

Whenever time travel is involved, there are bound to be some inconsistencies but they weren't that terrible especially for people that aren't really into comic books anyways.

The role of Wolverine in this movie is different from the story in the comic books because a different character was used for the time travel. I guess they didn't want to give a female character the lead and to a character that non comic book fans are used to. I would have loved for them to center on a different character. This is like the fourth X-Men movie that revolves around fucking Wolverine(yes I'm including his two origin movies).

I've also read that this movie was basically a goodbye/send off for most of the original X-Men cast/crew. Also Gambit is supposedly getting his own solo movie so there is that to look forward to but he is going to be played by Channing Tatum which I don't mind. Of course nerds are raging over that casting choice though like they always do prematurely.

**Exo** · 06-01-2014, 08:53 AM

I don't mind them sending off the old guys. If they're going to do this "continuing" franchise thing for almost 15 years then you're going to have to replace people. End of story. I also like how Singer literally made X-3 not happen. I thought that was funny.

The Batlord · 06-02-2014, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

I've also read that this movie was basically a goodbye/send off for most of the original X-Men cast/crew. Also Gambit is supposedly getting his own solo movie so there is that to look forward to but he is going to be played by Channing Tatum which I don't mind. Of course nerds are raging over that casting choice though like they always do prematurely.

So long as his Cajun accent is properly hilarious then I won't mind.

WWWP · 06-02-2014, 07:43 PM

I had forgotten how badly I wanted to see this until I grabbed it at the video store last night. Weirdest **** ever but so ****ing rad - it's pretty inexplicable as far as the plot line goes, but all I needed to hear was that it was filmed without permission in Disneyworld/land and I was interested. This is one I'll probably buy.

05-29-2014, 03:37 PM	#14151 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Big Bad Wolves First off let me say that even though I love his films, Quentin Tarantino is starting to piss me off. He’s a pretentious douchebag who happens to make some of the best films of the past thirty years. I’ll give him credit for that. I hope he continues making films for a long, long time. I do however wish that he stop talking, like forever. His claim that this was the best film of last year is just ludicrous and seems like he’s just trying to sniff his own butthole due to the fact that the entire film was a dragged out version of the scene from “Reservoir Dogs” when Micheal Madsen cuts that cops ear off. That isn’t to say I didn’t like the film because I enjoyed it, but it was nothing new whatsoever and for Mr. Tarantino to claim that this film was the best from last year just strikes me wrong. It just screams “Hey! I make movies like this! I didn’t make a movie this year so THIS is the best of the whole year.” Give me a break. Now, apologies to the cast and crew of this film because even though it seems like I just took a huge dump on your film, I did find some enjoyment in the film. Besides a little set up, the entirety of the film pretty much takes place in the basement of a secluded cabin in which a father who just lost his daughter to a brutal rapist/murderer thinks he has found the killer. He thinks he has found the killer because the cop who is with him thinks it was him even though there is no evidence to suggest he’s right. There really isn’t much more meat to this film besides being a good old fashioned torture movie. Films like this come along a lot because it’s an easy script to write and you can get creative in the ways to torture people. This film didn’t get that creative. Hell, it wasn’t even that bloody. There were a few cringe worthy scenes but for the most part I was left wanting something a little more original. I was at least hoping for a shocker of an ending but instead I got an unearned twist that was suppose to hit hard but since the script decided to invest nothing in the characters themselves, I didn’t give a **. The only thing I actually enjoyed about this film was the cast and the dialogue, which is what ultimately saved the film for me. Tzahi Grad is a menace. He’s a huge presence with a deep frightening voice that was perfect in this role. His line of “Maniacs are afraid of other maniacs” couldn’t have rang more true. The guy was a pleasure to watch every single time he was on screen. His terrifying presence was helped greatly by some fantastic dialogue written for the characters. The writers decided to take a black comedy approach by taking a very serious script about torture, rape, and murder and gad the characters in this film be as polite as possible. In one instance, a character apologizes to the alleged serial killer for not offering him a piece of cake. This is before he is planning on burning him with a torch. I loved it. I thought it was hilarious. I wish the movie lived up to how funny it ended up being. So while Mr. Tarantino was completely wrong about this film in my opinion, it was still a decent watch and is now streaming on Netflix. If you’re into horror movies and would like to see a black comedy dressed up as a horror film, then I’d suggest checking it out. 3/5 __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE**

05-29-2014, 03:42 PM	#14152 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	hmmmmm this flick has been sitting on my computer for about two months.....maybe i should just buck up and watch it __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

05-30-2014, 08:04 PM	#14154 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	Ah man. I hated that movie too. I watched The Kids Are All Right the other night. Growing up with a queer single mother I thought I'd relate to it more. Still a great movie, though. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

06-01-2014, 08:53 AM	#14158 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	I don't mind them sending off the old guys. If they're going to do this "continuing" franchise thing for almost 15 years then you're going to have to replace people. End of story. I also like how Singer literally made X-3 not happen. I thought that was funny. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

05-30-2014, 06:04 PM	#14153 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Charlie Bartlett: 5/10. I really can't ever watch another film with psychological themes in it again. A seventeen year old flipping through the DSM and prescribing medications to other teenagers? I can't even begin to describe how unsound that is. Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't listen to one another about regular ****, let alone psychological advice.